As soon as the light faded, Goddess Blanc moved and erected a multicolored barrier around us. It was so fast that I couldn't even see the mont it was created, like the barrier appeared instantly.
*TANG!* *CLANG!*
As if they were waiting for our appearance, myriad attacks fell right on top of us. Thankfully, the barrier was holding up well, not budging an inch against the barrage of attacks.
"As expected... this is a bit sad, King Leonard."
God Zeshion muttered in a sad tone, his expression as if he was about to cry.
Before us was the prided Royal Army, each being at the 7th stage and above. Not only them, but even their tad monsters joined the fray, firing attacks one after another as if they didn't mind running out of energy.
While looking at them, however, I noticed sothing weird.
"Why... do they all not have signs of vitality?"
They do have their energy circulating inside them, but other than for attacks, there was no other flow present in their body. In short, no blood flow could be observed.
"Are they all..."
Before I could finish what I was about to ask, Goddess Blanc tapped my shoulder. She was shaking her head sideways, as if telling not to say it.
I now understand why Zeshion felt sad. Everyone before us was already dead. They're sothing like zombies—dead bodies that were still moving beyond reason.
"I guess this is the first ti you and Yu Na saw this. This is without a doubt Noir's doing. The special effect of his God Domain, the Death Army."
"..."
Using other humans and monsters as literal puppets, Noir really does have a bad taste. Seeing the atrocity he's done, even I started to feel anger welling up deep within my soul.
"No choice. We'll proceed as planned!"
Zeshion, sighing deeply, raised his voice and announced. Hearing that, nobody raised an objection. Everyone's resolve was firm.
"Then I'll go handle the small fries,"
Goddess Zeta muttered before snapping her fingers. As soon as she did, most of the attacking army's mbers vanished from their spots. Their current position was probably either several thousand ters straight up or straight down. Either way, instant death was the only possible outco for them.
'But they're the death army, practically zombies. Would that alone be enough to kill them?'
Such doubts crossed my mind, but I kept them to myself. Goddess Zeta was more experienced than regarding the death army, as she had fought god-tar Noir before.
The only ones left behind were those of the 9th stage, those who are of the space elent, and so of the rarer elents that could cancel, divert, or hinder the effects of Zeta's forced teleportation.
As expected, King Leonard was among those who survived the "screening" that Zeta did. Other than him, there were also about a hundred or so zombies that survived. It was a pretty small figure, knowing that there were tens of thousands of them before the goddess Zeta's attack.
"Uuuuh..."
King Leonard, as he currently is, could only groan. His movent was completely devoid of any sign of intelligence. However, despite that, he was waving his hand and sending orders to the soldiers around him.
Following his orders, all the soldiers, even the prince and so unfamiliar faces, quickly sent another wave of attacks. Goddess Blanc's barrier was still going strong, blocking everything easily.
"Then, I guess it's my turn!"
God Ajax showed a vicious smile before he vanished like a mist from inside the barrier. Even through my eyes, I completely couldn't see his figure. No, rather than not seeing him, it was close to him lding with the environnt. His presence was all over the place, but nowhere at the sa ti.
His presence spread thinly but widely, covering all the soldiers and other zombies within its range. After that, he started manifesting his body behind one of the enemies, sending heads flying, before returning to being scattered all around. In just a few seconds, the number of enemies dropped by half.
His targets were limited to the forr humans, however, intentionally leaving out the tad monsters who were similarly turned into zombies for the others to handle.
"Picky as usual. Why don't you just wipe them all out? It's the sa either way."
Goddess Veril sighed in exasperation before flying out of the barrier. Unlike Ajax, who was being stealthy while moving around, she was the very definition of conspicuous. Flying around in a fiery blaze, she was literally burning everything along her path.
Dozens of enemies turned to dust, barely able to do anything against her.
As the two were wreaking havoc in the middle of the enemies' formation, a powerful wave suddenly washed over them. Both gods stopped in place as if they were held by an invisible hand, completely taking away their freedom.
The two simultaneously turned to the "forr" King Leonard's side, where a simple-looking hourglass was floating. That hourglass wasn't really an object, but a monster. The extrely rare ti-elent monster of the king, the tikeeper Rivet.
That little thing was the most feared enemy by the god tars. After all, it was extrely hard to counter ti manipulation. Veril and Ajax were both proof of this, as they both were locked in ti, unable to move as if a character in a paused movie.
Ajax was one thing, but Veril had a way to break out of the ti control. From the void of space around her, raging flas started converging. It started off as a small fla circling around her until it beca a gigantic ball of fire.
"Ugh... Hot!"
Furthermore, just because of that ball of fire, the temperature around it jumped up, reaching almost unbearable levels. Seeing the ground below her starting to liquefy, it was easy to imagine just how hot it was at the center of it all.
Slowly, Veril's body started moving once more. As soon as it happened, her clothes started to completely burn off—a familiar scene to .
"Is that [Fla Clad]?!"
It wasn't that rare of a skill, but comparing Igni's version with Goddess Veril's was like comparing a match's fla to the sun!
"That's Raven, alright. Bruteforcing everything."
Goddess Blanc's words echoed as another layer of barrier was cast, making it so that the radiated heat from Veril would no longer affect us.
The large ball of flas around her started to condense, creating a bright and hot fla covering her entire body like full-plate armor. The surrounding soldiers, even King Leonard, and his tad monster, the tikeeper Rivet, were visibly lting from the heat she radiated alone.
Still, as expected of a rare elent, they didn't go down with just that. With their figures returning to their previous state, like skipping fras and turning back ti, all mbers of the Death Army recovered. That included the ones that Ajax had supposedly killed and the ones that Goddess Zeta had sent to an unknown location.
Furthermore, there's now a layer of protection around them, blocking off the radiated heat and any and all attacks by stopping ti a few inches from their bodies. Seeing this, Veril frowned deeply.
"You pesky little thing, why don't you simply give up?!"
However, like a strand of plastic exposed to a raging fla, the revived zombies couldn't do anything before they lted away, burning away until nothing remained. The barrier covering them couldn't do much against the intense flas that she was releasing.
"Zeta, drag Ajax back here. He'll get swallowed by the following attack."
Zeshion calmly ordered, upon which Zeta acted instantly. With a snap, the body of Ajax, still frozen in ti, appeared in his previous position. As if waiting for that, Veril's excited voice echoed loudly.
"Let's wrap this all up! [Fla Clad: Supernova]!"
After that... I don't know what happened.
Goddess Blanc's barrier suddenly turned black, but before that, I think I saw a bright flash covering my entire field of view. Although it was just for a short instant, I felt like my eyes got burned by the intense light.
*PSSSSSSHHHHHHH!*
All we could see was darkness, but outside, the sound of sothing evaporating rapidly, like water dropping on a hot stone, echoed loudly. About a minute later, Ajax was no longer stopped in place. The barrier's dark color also faded, returning it to the semi-transparent appearance it had before.
However, the scenery had already completely changed.
As far as the eye could see, everything started to turn into glass. The intense heat from Veril's attack literally changed the terrain, deleting the beautiful forest and almost evaporating half of the castle town ahead.
"That's how you clear up swathes of enemies!"
She muttered as she landed before us, her body still covered by the [Fla Clad]'s fla armor. The heat she was exuding was now restrained to the point that it didn't bother anyone near her.
I was wondering why she wasn't turning off her skill, but then I recalled that her clothes had all burned up. She's practically naked underneath the fla armor right now.
Anyway, now that there's nothing else blocking the way, we can safely head to the Royal Castle without worrying. Just as we were about to approach, sothing unbelievable happened.
"The castle... is floating! Is that Lap*ta?!"
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